Heather McHugh
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Heather McHugh (born August 20, 1948) is an award-winning American poet who is best known for translating poetry from Eastern Europe.
Life
Heather McHugh, a poet, translator, educator, and caregiver-respite specialist, was born in San Diego, California, to Canadian parents. McHugh was raised in Gloucester Point, Virginia, by his parents. Her father, who was born in the United States, supervised the marine biological laboratory on the York River. She began writing poetry at the age of five and claims to have become a "eavesdropper" by the age of twelve. She began attending Harvard University at the age of seventeen. One of the year's best books was Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968–1993, which received the Bingham Poetry Prize and the Pollack-Harvard Review Prize, and was dubbed by The New York Times Book Review a Notable Book of the Year. Paul Celan's book "Glottal Stop: Poems" was another book that was co-translated and launched with Nikolai B. Popov; it was also called "Glottal Stop: Poems by Paul Celan," which was also published; the Griffin International Poetry Prize was won.
In 1999, McHugh was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She worked at American colleges and universities, including the University of Washington in Seattle, for more than 40 years; she also works with some students through the University of Washington's low-residency Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
In 2009, she was given the MacArthur Foundation's "Genius Award" for her efforts. She founded CAREGIFTED (http://www.caregiveed.org) in 2011-2012 to bring relief and respect to long-term caregivers of the severely disabled and chronically ill.
Awards and honors
- Two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Griffin Poetry Prize
- Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation
- Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, University of Washington
- Finalist for the National Book Award
- Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
- Witter Bynner Fellowship
- PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
- O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
- MacArthur Fellowship